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Email Us Your Experiences with Mandatory Long-Term Care Options Counseling
By Phil Manz
Care Providers of Minnesota has created an email address for members to use to send us their stories and experiences with mandatory long-term care options counseling & LTC consultation for prospective HWS read more...
Resources Now Available on CMMI Bundled Payment Initiative
By Patti Cullen, CAE
AHCA will post to their website aggregate data and supporting materials to assist members in preparing the research request packet needed to apply for participation in the CMS bundled payment initiative read more...
Resources to Help with the Elder Justice Act Reporting Requirements
By Doug Beardsley
Care Providers of Minnesota and the American Health Care Association have developed a series of resources, tools, and templates to help our members comply with this law. They include a summary of the reporting read more...
The Best Value Around: Administrators Can Receive Up to 14 CEUs by Attending the 2011 Convention & Exposition
By Cyndi Spencer
Administrators who are seeking continuing education can acquire up to 14 CEUs over the three days of the Convention. Sessions targeted specifically to administrators include status of state and federal health care read more...
Mandatory Transitional Consultation Update — Initial Response, Hospital Discharge Planners and Customer Satisfaction Surveys
By Phil Manz
Members report that many hospital discharge planners don't know about the new law, and this could explain why they're not using the after-hours emergency admission forms. DHS reports that about 100 people read more...
October Region Meeting Location Change!
By Jason Espersen
The region 4 meeting on Friday, October 14, will now be held at Ridgeview Place in Sauk Rapids. Regions 5 through 8 will meet next week. We offer 2.5 hours (3.0 contact hours) of CEUs for those who attend read more...
CEO Blog: Medicaid Reform Waivers Include HCBS Redesign — Got Any Ideas??
By Patti Cullen, CAE
There is no disputing that we need to look at what the government invests in, and how to get a better return on investment. I hope there are some unique ideas that evolve out of these discussions, although the read more...
State News
DHS Publishes Fall 2011 Quarterly Update for the Minnesota Nursing Facility Performance-Based Incentive Payment Program
By Todd Bergstrom
DHS has published the inaugural edition of the Quarterly Update for the Minnesota Nursing Facility Performance-Based Incentive Payment Program. In addition to announcing that the next request for PIPP proposals read more...
PowerPoint on Home- and Community-Based Services Trends Available
By Toby Pearson
At the October 5, 2011 Care Providers of Minnesota Board of Directors retreat, Todd Bergstrom provided an overview of the home- and community-based services trends, including state budget trends read more...
National News
A Win for the Future: NFPA Adopts Certain Culture Change Initiatives
By Doug Beardsley
The good news is that the 2012 version of the Life Safety Code contained a number of initiatives that were supported by AHCA and the Pioneer Network. The bad news is that CMS still requires compliance read more...
Final Rule Issued by the National Labor Relations Board — DELAYED
By Nancy McCoy
The final rule was published in the Federal Register on August 30, and was scheduled to take effect 75 days later, or on November 14. The effective date of this posting has been moved to January 31, 2012 read more...
CMS Clarifies Use of Civil Money Penalty Funds by States
By Doug Beardsley
The memo notes that states must obtain CMS approval for the use of any federal CMP funds through either conformance with pre-approved categories of use or prior approval. Minnesota has made read more...
AHCA/NCAL News
AHCA Announces New Senior Director
By Patti Cullen, CAE
Kim Zimmerman, an experienced advocate for health and public policy initiatives on Capitol Hill, is joining the American Health Care Association as a senior director of policy and government relations read more...
Quality Initiatives
AHCA/NCAL Looking for Quality Award Examiners
By Doug Beardsley
The 2012 National Quality Award examiner recruitment process has begun! The electronic application form is available on the 2012 Quality Award examiner application website. Remember, all returning read more...
Education
The Performance Management Webinar Series Starts Next Week
By Cheryl Smith
The interview is the most important recruitment tool in selecting the people that ultimately will determine your organizational success. This webinar provides useable tools, knowledge, and skills to make read more...
Save the Date: Free November 8, 2011 Long-Term Care and Hospital Readmissions Webinar
By Todd Bergstrom
The Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively (RARE) Initiative has scheduled a FREE Long-Term Care and Hospital Readmissions webinar on November 8, 2011 from noon to 1:00 p.m. We will inform read more...
Association Activities
Watch Your Mail for the Annual Membership Meeting Packet
By Nancy McCoy
This year, preceding the Annual Membership Meeting, we have invited Nancy Rehkamp, LarsonAllen principal, to speak at our CEO/Leadership Connection. To vote at our Annual Membership Meeting, you will read more...
Associate Member News
Members Continue to Find Dollar Savings in Group Purchasing Benefits
By Doug Beardsley
More locations recently joined UHF Purchasing and are on their way to saving money through the negotiated pricing of a national group purchasing program. Do you want to sign up? Contact Bill Wigg at read more...
Rewards and Recognition
Member Appointed to Good Samaritan Society’s Board of Directors
By Lisa Foss Olson
Sharon St. Mary, executive director of Good Samaritan Society – University Specialty Center and Good Samaritan Society – Stillwater, was appointed to Good Samaritan Society’s Board of Directors read more...
Member Resources
Guide to Minnesota Class F Home Care Provider Rules
By Todd Bergstrom
The Guide to Minnesota Class F Home Care Provider Rules is available now to Care Providers of Minnesota members for $350. If you want to learn more about this valuable resource, a free webinar read more...
Clinical Matters
Place Your Order for the New RAI MDS 3.0 Manual Now!
By Doug Beardsley
The American Health Care Association is now accepting pre-orders for the updated RAI MDS 3.0 Manual. The October 2011 version contains all revisions made through September 2011, including the most read more...
FYI Corner
Caregiver Information Released at Special Premiere
By Patti Cullen, CAE
At a special October 11 premiere of the latest episode of the Twin Cities Public Television program, “Getting There,” there was also a kick-off of a new caregiver identification and resource program from the read more...
Information You Need: CMS “Help Prevent Fraud” Campaign
By Patti Cullen, CAE
If you help people with Medicare, watch for the CMS “Help Prevent Fraud” campaign on TV and in newspapers in your area. The campaign tells people how they can protect themselves against fraud by read more...
Education & Events Calendar
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Oct. 14 |
Region 4 (East-Central) Meeting; NEW LOCATION!!! |
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Oct. 18 |
Leading4Life Meeting |
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Oct. 18 |
Region 6 (Metro) Meeting; 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Bloomington |
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Oct. 19 |
Region 8 (South-Central) Meeting; 9:00 a.m. - noon in Waseca |
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Oct. 19 |
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Oct. 20 |
Region 5 (South-West) Meeting; 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Edgerton |
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Oct. 21 |
Region 7 (South-East) Meeting; 9:00 a.m. - noon in Rochester |
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Oct. 27–28 |
Managing Your Nursing Practice in Assisted Living & Senior Housing, Part II |
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Nov. 14–16 |
Care Providers of Minnesota Convention & Expo |
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Dec. 13 |
Keeping the Good Ones: Effective Retention Strategies Webinar |
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Jan. 12, 2012 |
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Managing Employee Performance Webinar |
For a full list of scheduled events and committee meetings, visit our online calendar.
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